Wayland Nvidia Slow, When I run games on X11 the GPU utilization is always aroung 100% but when switching to Wayland the GPU utilization never reaches / gets close to 100% and always stays at around 70%. 04 and Plasma This isn’t really a question. Basically every movement is quite delayed/laggy. 535. Does this have This only happens on wayland. This tutorial solves common Hyprland, suspend, and multi-monitor issues I decided to downgrade nvidia-dkms to v. 54. In practice, that means that you can run a Wayland compositor (such as Sway) with the iGPU and then use the Secondary monitor performance is slow on an Nvidia hybrid system in Wayland sessions Graphics / Linux Linux wayland, ubuntu gutopardini April 30, 2022, 2:01pm 1 Updated on January 6, 2026 in #linux GPU Memory Allocation Bugs with NVIDIA on Linux and Wayland Adventures I'm using the proprietary NVIDIA drivers and applied everything the Arch wiki suggested, When I run games on X11 the GPU utilization is always aroung 100% but when switching to Wayland the GPU utilization never reaches / gets close to 100% and always stays at around 70%. After doing this, KDE Plasma on Wayland suffered from extremely low performance. The cursor itself is laggy and probably runs at less than 60 A subreddit for discussions and news about gaming on the GNU/Linux family of operating systems (including the Steam Deck). The entire system went from fast and slick to sluggish and extremely slow/laggy. Wayland definitely boots faster and offers a smoother experience in applications like Nautilus. It’s probably because it’s using xwayland, with wayland native driver which will be released on Wine / Proton 10, that will be improved. It feels sluggish and slow with like lag spikes. The cursor itself is laggy and probably runs at less than 60 On Windows, Nvidia’s driver automatically ramps up clock speeds when it detects display output activity. I'm using Nvidia drivers nvidia-dkms 550. I use plasma on my Intel laptop and ryzen nvidia desktop, and after compiling the qt wish i could edit the title to ‘Wayland: applications freeze when vram alloc fails, paging to system ram needed’ or something along those lines i’ve frankensteined the GPU memory stats bits I tried to use Wayland to test it and see if it got better than X11, but the first thing I encountered is that mouse movement feels slow and laggy compared to X11. This discrepancy between the FPS counter and the actual Long, detailed article showing idle and loaded system performance benchmarks on a laptop with Intel processor and hybrid Intel and Nvidia graphics running Kubuntu 24. Games dont stutter, xwayland apps arent laggy or buggy like they were previously, I have been trying for weeks to achieve a good low latency experience with Wayland, and I have not yet been successful. It has 2 GB of memory and it’s 1 component of the computer I built in 2014. I am playing through Lutris and happens with both wine-staging NVIDIA drivers recently introduced PRIME offloading support on XWayland. (NVIDIA) Title, this happens a lot on firefox and other programs, including steam, even kitty sometimes. However, I’ve noticed some issues: pressing the Super/Win key on the main display causes Fix flickering & crashes with our definitive Wayland NVIDIA guide for Arch Linux. Some GPUs are not supported by newer NVIDIA drivers than 470xx (Howto/NVIDIA - RPM Fusion), but these drivers don’t work with 555 might be the first nvidia driver that has no serious wayland bugs. Fix flickering & crashes with our definitive Wayland NVIDIA guide for Arch Linux. At first I thought this was a KDE only issue, Hi, i am not sure how to describe this best, but the mouse movement doesn’t feel precise on my second (external) monitor. Despite the Steam FPS counter showing a stable 55-60 FPS, the gameplay felt laggy, almost as if it was in slow motion at times. (My monitor has . Hi, I’m here out of frustration from trying to use my laptop with an Nvidia dedicated graphics card and a external monitor connected to it. I have tested a version that has it, at least an old Everything was fine, until I plugged in my external (and primary) monitor. When GSP firmware is enabled on Wayland session, scrolling in all browsers (Google Chrome, Brave-chromium based, Firefox) has stuttering and generally low fps. Mouse Cursor on Wayland lags. On Linux, this simply doesn’t happen reliably — especially on Wayland, where the Wayland breaking your Linux setup? These are the exact fixes for black screens, app crashes, XWayland issues and GPU problems — tested on real machines in 2026. 14-4 with a 1650 max-q and a ryzen 5 4600H. Then, I switched to X11 and This time around my NVIDIA GeForce GTX 750 Ti GPU with Wayland is giving me endless trouble. That is definately I have updated from Fedora 39 to Fedora 41 two days ago and have done some troubleshooting, including the correction of fault GRUB config generation scripts, rebuilding the Hello everyone! While searching for a solution to the stuttering and low FPS issues I’ve been having with KDE Plasma on Wayland with Nvidia GPU, I came across an interesting comment. 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